Exam 30: Ethics of Development, by Des Gasper

The preliminary phase of discourse analysis asks who wrote a text, for what purpose, and how this should affect your interpretation of it.

Development in human societies involved objective choices.

Stories are useful in that they show case-specifics and deepen understanding of local dynamics.

What philosophical tradition utilizes a cost-benefit analysis?

What do natural law ethics imply?

Narayan's Voices of the Poor study reviewed more than 10,000 interviews with poor, middle class and rich people.

When did the field of development ethics emerge?

Natural law ethics is based on the nature of human beings and their environment.

How do natural law ethics compare to utilitarianism? What is your position in relation to them?

To look at distinctive real cases in which the need for action often seems urgent, we have to use imperfect general ideas together with typically imperfect data.

How did Hugo Grotius legitimate dispossession of Indigenous communities?

How does the film Avatar present an analogy of the "resource grab" in international development?

Where did the field of development ethics emerge from?

What is Ruggie's approach to bringing corporations onboard in promoting human rights in development?

How is "choice" an integral aspect of development ethics?

Progress has a universal meaning, content, and destination from a multilinear model perspective.

In development ethics, the stage of systematizing ideas can begin with an "identify and describe" phase.

According to Penz et al. no one has an absolute right not to be displaced.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) consolidated the human rights movement.

The root concerns of development ethics apply only to developing countries.